[Fulbright 2011-2012]

This site will answer your questions: http://fulbright.state.gov/orientation/china/faqs2

Jonathan says he will have more orientation information for the E.Asia ETA/Indonesia Full&ETA folks within 2 weeks

=)

Has anyone (for any country) gotten any information regarding the pre-departure orientation? Are we supposed to book our own flights there or will they be doing that for us? Is Fulbright getting us a hotel and everything or are we supposed to be taking care of thing ourselves? I keep trying to call Jonathan Akeley about it but I haven't been able to reach him yet.

[Fulbright 2011-2012]

Hey Special K,

I didn't know that they asked for shots.... I thought it was just the medical clearance (blood test and TB)...

Edit: Oh and I saw that you're in PHX? I'm in Mesa =) and I got placed in Kaohsiung.

What do we have to do specifically for our medical clearance to Taiwan?

I went today to get all my shots and stuff but I am paranoid that I forgot something. Any ideas Taiwan ETAs?

[Fulbright 2011-2012]

Hey there,

Just got a big envelope from Taiwan today. It tells you where you will be placed! =)

Thanks for sharing! I've been wondering about that.

[Fulbright 2011-2012]

You are so helpful! Thank you so much. I really hope you can get in touch with them ASAP!

I just got an email about this today for Western Hemisphere.

The costs associated with your transportation from your current U.S. residence to Washington, DC, as well as your hotel accommodations for the duration of the orientation will be covered by the U.S. Department of State. Upon arrival at the hotel, you will also receive a travel allowance of $100 and a stipend to pay for any meals that are not offered during the orientation. All travel (flight and train) arrangements to the PDO must be made through the orientation travel agent. Instructions for making those reservations are available on the orientation website,

www.fulbright.state.gov/orientation

.

That email has put a monkey wrench in my summer plans since I was planning to do a FLAS program abroad before taking up the Fulbright. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do since the language course won't be offered next summer. I definitely can't afford to fly myself to DC and back and the email I sent late last week to the PDO has not been answered. I think I'll be calling them in the morning.

[Fulbright 2011-2012]

Thanks so much! Just wish that they sent all the information along with the acceptance letter...

According to the terms and conditions on the website:

Grantees are required to attend any orientation program in the United States conducted for them whileen route to their country or region of assignment and to attend any orientation program conducted for

them in the host country or region. Expenses related to such attendance are not compensated for in

addition to the fixed sum of the grant. Only if grantees and/or dependents are required to attend an

orientation program before beginning their trip abroad will they receive a separate orientation

allowance.

So, since the DC trip is a month prior to when we're actually leaving, I would say that it is probably going to be paid for. Once again, I'm hoping that they'll be giving us more info soon.

[Fulbright 2011-2012]

This might be a silly question... do you know if the DC trip is all paid for?

You can download the info here: http://us.fulbrighto...ions_world.html

But I'm sure they'll be letting us know more information after our medical clearance is complete.

[Fulbright 2011-2012]

Use the "fellowship" deferment. That will work for Fulbrighters.

In terms of school loans, I think I you can get another deferment. I read something to that affect. Can anyone else confirm?

[Fulbright 2011-2012]

On someone's blog it says $1,300 USD per month. Hope that helps =)

Does anyone know how much funding you get as an ETA in Taiwan?

Thanks!

[Fulbright 2010-2011]

Dear all Taiwan alternates~ Have any of you gotten moved up to principle status (full or ETA)?